NaNDA: An Open Data Resource for Health Science Researchers - Lindsay Gypin, Marilyn Sinkewicz, and Philippa Clarke

"NaNDA: An Open Data Resource for Health Science Researchers" is presented by Lindsay Gypin, Marilyn Sinkewicz, and Philippa Clarke from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Health disparities are a function of access to and control over the multiple determinants of health, including the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, and age. This webinar will provide an overview of the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA) and discuss how neighborhoods operate as a social determinant of health. Using data from NaNDA, presenters will demonstrate some of the diverse pathways by which local neighborhood characteristics can shape health disparities. NaNDA is a publicly available data archive containing measures of the physical, economic, built, and social environment at the “neighborhood” level. Each NaNDA dataset covers all or most of the entire nation (including both rural and urban areas) and represents a set of measures on a single topic of interest, including socioeconomic disadvantage, healthcare, housing, political partisanship, and public transit, with temporal coverage dating back to at least 2000. Anyone with research questions that address "place" – researchers, students, clinicians, policymakers, public health departments, and community organizations, among others – can download NaNDA measures at the census tract, zip code, or country level, and link them with other data sources such as survey data, cohort studies, electronic medical records, and other microdata. A “tour” of the NaNDA archive and its data holdings will be provided. The webinar will close with a discussion of implications for health policy and practice. The Network of the National Library of Medicine is funded by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. Learn more at https://nnlm.gov

Evaluation Link: https://www.nnlm.gov/HB0124 MLA CE Expires: Jul 10, 2024

This webinar was originally presented on January 10th, 2024.